Public Theology in Forum

Robert Bellah (1): Religion and Evolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_N._Bellah                   Sociology of Multiple Realties and Structure of Evolutionary Change  Robert Bellah, one of the most influential American sociologists in our century, engages in a biological theory of organism’s adaptive development and conserved core processes, furthering the significance of cultural evolution; its uniqueness differs from biologic..

Problematization: Autopoiesis and Epigenetic World   Francisco Varela gives account of the concept of autopoiesis in terms of the biological cell. A cell, the smallest living system, reproduces itself (DNA replication), developing, and differentiating. A living system is an organization that preserves itself as a result of its organization, because it produces components that produce components ..

Prolepsis of Life-World and Social Formation In the proleptic view of life-word, I am concerned with the Santiago school of thought; self-awareness is tied to language, and its approach to language is undertaken in a careful analysis of communication, which implies mutual coordination of behavior among living organisms through mutual structural coupling. Our linguistic distinctions exist in the ..

Luhmann and Religion  In his last stage, Luhmann was devoted to the phenomenon of religion from his theory of social systems, in which religion is formulated as an autopoietic subsystem of modern society. Human beings, from the system theoretical perspective, live, think, and act in the network of communication. The autonomy of social or communicative systems requires a conceptual revolution by ..